The pathogen C. diff—the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea—can use a compound that kills the ...

In general, strive to use antibiotics ... the antibiotic spectrum of treatment after results of cultures and/or susceptibility tests become known. Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI ...

For people with Crohn’s, antibiotics may help lower the amount and change the composition of bacteria in the intestines, which may relieve symptoms. They can also treat infections. Antibiotics ...

Standard antibiotic treatment clears most infections. However, sometimes additional treatments are needed. Beyond physical ...

Their research is published in the journal PLOS Biology. Currently, the antibiotics used to treat C. diff damage beneficial gut bacteria, leading to a high reinfection rate—up to 30% of patients ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections. The pill, ...

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...

Once C-diff is in the ascendancy it can be very hard to shift – the traditional treatment is antibiotics but a significant number of patients do not respond and are left with relentless and ...

Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff rapidly evolves resistance to the frontline drug used for treatment in the UK. Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a type of bacteria which ...